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| People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise | | Uncategorized | |
| People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. | | Self-knowledge | |
| Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety | | Common sense; Wisdom | |
| Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. | | Books | |
| Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that. | | Uncategorized | |
| That must be wonderful: I don't understand it at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. | | Uncategorized | |
| The beautiful eyes of my cash-box. | | Beauty | |
| The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. | | Comedy | |
| The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. | | Overcoming | |
| The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. | | Uncategorized | |
| The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. | | Uncategorized | |
| The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners. | | Uncategorized | |
| The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. | | World | |
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| There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. | | Praise | |
| There is no rampart that will hold out against malice | | Uncategorized | |
| There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting | | Love | |
